I had the opportunity to take a closer look.
Here we have the main motif, since the print does not have sharp edges, they have solved it by running a chain stitch to outline the bird, and some essential details, along with a satin stitch around the neck.
The other motifs, some of which are easy to identify and others less so.
The dress itself is pretty amazing when you consider that all of the texture is simply bias chiffon layers that have been sewn on a chiffon background.
It is lined in silk charmeuse, in a coordinating print.
Of course this goes back to my textile envy post, these fabrics are manufactured for the designer. I couldn't begin to imagine how much yardage went into this dress, or how it was manufactured. So this is one of those fabrics, while not impossible to make would be cost and time prohibitive.
4 comments:
Late to the comment party but I wanted to express my awe at the little shelf mat. Genius.
This dress is stunning. I think it would be interesting to use the layers of chiffon method as a trim much like the neckline trims popular for the last 3 or 4 years. Cropped close it sort of looks like fine feathers or fur! A new type of bird.
Corrine - Thank you, I made a back up for it so I can keep them in rotation.
That was very insightful, the texture does look like a new type of bird. I wonder if that's what they were thinking when they designed it, or maybe a stormy sky. I think this would be an interesting technique to use on a shrug, especially for someone with narrow shoulders. Something to balance the figure by filling out the shoulder area.
What detail! Like you, I can't imagine how expensive it was to develop and produce that textile. I assume it's very closely-spaced rows of the chiffon, thousands and thousands of them? Wow. Gorgeous effect, though.
It is so closely spaced it was difficult to get them separated for the photograph. I'm thinking we can achieve the same density as trim on a garment.
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